I like to think that Paul really *can* control the speed of his beard growing. If they wanted to do a Warriors of Darkness video, they'd give him a day warning and the next morning - BAM! - full face of beard! Though it was weird at first, I've come to love the beardless Paul.

I thought this vid was great, though I agree with the general consensus that a revisit of the Slacking for Gold team would be nice. Perhaps we could see how they are doing now? Maybe moved on to Figure Curling or something else?

PS. Good to be back in the forums! Been AWOL for far too long!

"Think now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadows?"
--The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Awesome video guys. Totally didn't expect Matt to win the beard contest. It seems similar in theory to Slacking for Gold, insofar as they're both unlikely Olympic competitions, but that's where the similarities end, and both videos become funny in their own, unique way.

It was a little unexpected to see Morgan as the lead reporter for A9, but I suppose it makes the most sense, as everybody else who is a known reporter is already in the video elsewhere.

Also, I'd be interested to know if Paul is planning to return to the goatee, or if he grew the beard only for this video. I'd prefer the former, if only to see a return of the Warriors of Darkness.

I thought this was hilarious from beginning to end. I did call that Matt would end up winning from out of nowhere, but somehow didn't figure out that it would have been a heck of a lot easier to just keep trimming the beards back to smooth rather than trying to keep continuity going back to film multiple times.

Matt wrote:That was actually the one issue I had with this script, and I didn't realize I had it until after I saw the final cut and realized we didn't address it.

We probabkly should have thrown a line in early about the sport's checkered past of doping, or cheating.

realistically, it's probably supposed to be a fake beard that he threw on when no one was looking, but it wors as him suddenly just insta-groing it too.

interpret it how ou like, whatever you think is funnier.

-m

I don't know, when the camera cuts to you/Hans, it seems to be catching the very end of a spontaneous growth that even surprised your character, from the look on his face. Like he was like, "C'mon...C'mon, grow...WHOA! Holy shit!"

Matt wrote:That was actually the one issue I had with this script, and I didn't realize I had it until after I saw the final cut and realized we didn't address it.

We probabkly should have thrown a line in early about the sport's checkered past of doping, or cheating.

realistically, it's probably supposed to be a fake beard that he threw on when no one was looking, but it wors as him suddenly just insta-groing it too.

interpret it how ou like, whatever you think is funnier.

-m

I don't know, when the camera cuts to you/Hans, it seems to be catching the very end of a spontaneous growth that even surprised your character, from the look on his face. Like he was like, "C'mon...C'mon, grow...WHOA! Holy shit!"

He's on an Olympic Beard Growing Team and has made it to the finals of Beard Growing. Why would it suprise him that he managed to grow a beard?

Matt wrote:That was actually the one issue I had with this script, and I didn't realize I had it until after I saw the final cut and realized we didn't address it.

We probabkly should have thrown a line in early about the sport's checkered past of doping, or cheating.

realistically, it's probably supposed to be a fake beard that he threw on when no one was looking, but it wors as him suddenly just insta-groing it too.

interpret it how ou like, whatever you think is funnier.

-m

I don't know, when the camera cuts to you/Hans, it seems to be catching the very end of a spontaneous growth that even surprised your character, from the look on his face. Like he was like, "C'mon...C'mon, grow...WHOA! Holy shit!"

He's on an Olympic Beard Growing Team and has made it to the finals of Beard Growing. Why would it suprise him that he managed to grow a beard?

Not so much surprise that he managed to grow a beard, just surprise that he managed to grow a full, Grizzly Adams beard in less than a second.